What game should install

[Jason Liang]

I dropped my laptop and broke my hard drive and lost everything.

So now I have a completely virgin hard drive, no games on it whatsoever.

Which games should I install first? This actually happened, it's not a hypothetical.

Troika:
Arcanum
Bloodlines
Temple of Elemental Evil

Paradox:
EU III
EU IV
Victoria II
CK II
City Skylines

Sierra:
Jagged Alliance 2

HBS:
Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Black Isle:
NWN

Alicesoft:
Sengoku Rance
Big Bang Age
Kichikou Rance

SMAX
Sid Meier's Pirates

Besides City Skylines, CK II and Victoria II, I've already played all these games and completed many of them, so this would be for a 2nd, 3rd or more playthrough. I'm open to suggestions for new games but not much else interests me these days. Invisible Inc is wonderful but I already got tired of it.

 

[Lilura]

My picks would be Troika's trio & Jagged Alliance 2 (1.13 mod).

NWN

Swordflight Chapter One & Chapter Two meet Codex standards; the latter is one of the best RPGs I've played.

 

[Courtier]

First install the age-old freeware called ''thinking for yourself'', proceed from there.

I'm open to suggestions for new games but not much else interests me these days

Just those listed? Maybe videogames are not for you. Try knitting, or bingo. I got some nice-ass shampoo at the last bingo night I went to, I tell ye whot

 

[Fargus]

What i would install.

Troika:
Arcanum
Bloodlines
Temple of Elemental Evil

Paradox:
EU III
EU IV
Victoria II
CK II
City Skylines

Sierra:
Jagged Alliance 2

HBS:
Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Black Isle:
NWN

Alicesoft:
Sengoku Rance
Big Bang Age
Kichikou Rance

SMAX
Sid Meier's Pirates

Black Isle:
NWN

Black Isle?

 

[Renevent]

Temple of Elemental Evil + Co8 patch.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

I honestly don't get the purpose of these kind of threads and there is a new one every other week. 'Duh I dunno wat to play guise' and then people randomly drop names of games, play this, play that.

Go through the Codex Top 70 list and just pick a bunch of games and play them, how hard can it be.

 

[DavidBVal]

Which games should I install first?

umm... what about, the one you want to play? as you say you've played all those 2 or 3 times, what exactly are you looking for here?

 

[Irenaeus II]

Pillars of Eternity

 

[Jason Liang]

I just want a few games installed and ready to play. These are the games that I'm ambivalent about right now; part of me wants to play them and part of me doesn't (especially the Alicesoft games since all my achievements/ character clears got wiped out). The games that I didn't list I have no desire to play at all.

Leaning more towards Arcanum but I do this dance every few months with that game and it always ends in disappointment usually by Tarant.

I'm mostly looking for inspiration of a fresh, interesting and challenging way to play an old classic. For example, I listed EU III since I want to do a Papal States game with that, which I haven't done before. That's likely why I brainstormed so many "sandboxy" games. Is there an interesting way to play Star Control 2/ UQM?

 

[visions]

Install Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. Try it and uninstall if you don't like it.

 

[Fargus]

Age of Decadence just got released. You might try this one.

 

[DavidBVal]

Install Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.

Fixed

 

[Xathrodox86]

Bloodlines, JA 2 and Pirates.

 

[pippin]

Install everything.

 

[Cthulhu_is_love]

 

[Klarion]

You prefer TB, RT or RTWP?

 

[Overboard]

So now I have a completely virgin

Rance is the only appropriate answer.

 

[Night Goat]

Age of Decadence just got released. You might try this one.

This. Why play something where you already know everything that's gonna happen? Try something new.

 

[Old Hans]

Crusader Kings 2 & Jagged Alliance 2. Even if you don't play them, it will make you proud to be an american